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I accidentally formated /boot partition of my RHEL 5 box. Can any one tell me steps to recover /boot partition. Thanx & Regard's Ashish...
  1. 07-28-2009 #1
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    How to recover /boot partition.

    I accidentally formated /boot partition of my RHEL 5 box.

    Can any one tell me steps to recover /boot partition.

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  2. 07-28-2009 #2
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    Welcome to the forums!

    Check out the SuperGRUB LiveCD:

    Super Grub Disk Homepage

    It's usually very good for repairing Linux and Windows bootloaders.



    Edit: oops... sorry, I just realized that you are talking about the /boot partition and not the MBR. I'm not sure what files would need to be replaced in a boot partition since I don't ever create one. Perhaps someone that has one will reply with some info for you.
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    Doh! I wasn't thinking again... you should check out TestDisk because it's able to recover deleted partitions and such:

    TestDisk - CGSecurity

    You can get a copy of it on the Parted Magic LiveCD and other such live disks.
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  4. 07-29-2009 #4
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    Exclamation Hi

    Thanx for the reply, But i think we can do it by Rescue mode in Linux ... But how i donno.


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    first recover data

    Dear ashish
    You formatted your boot partition. so first think about recover data present on boot partition and then think about 'Linux rescue' mode. Linux rescue doesn't recover data from formatted partition.
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    Hi Vishesh ,

    /boot was the independent 100MB partition & i didn't stored any other data on it.

    All the files related to Grub & Kernel was there on /boot.

    So do you have any idea how we can create /boot working as before ?


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  7. 07-29-2009 #7
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    put linux dvd in drive. on prompt type 'linux rescue' command.
    use 'grub_install' command. But remember this will install just grub into mbr not on boot partition. So i don't think 'linux rescue' can help you because you lost your kernel, initrd and grub by formatting /boot partition

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